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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!olivea!uunet!quack!dfox From: dfox@quack.kfu.com (David Fox) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: questions about floppy support Message-ID: <f0JUYsY@quack.kfu.com> Date: 18 Mar 93 18:40:27 GMT References: <BOOT.93Mar17172729@donald.osf.org> Organization: The Duck Pond public unix: +1 408 249 9630, log in as 'guest'. Lines: 38 In article <BOOT.93Mar17172729@donald.osf.org> boot@osf.org writes: > >I'm having some difficulties using floppies under 386BSD. I'm running >under 0.1 with the latest patchkit installed, on a 486DX2 66. I either >get hard errors from the floppy driver, or errors because the floppy >driver doesn't support certain ioctls. For example, I think newfs >tries to get the geometry of the floppy via an ioctl, and this fails >because the fd.c driver just returns ENXIO for ANY ioctl on the floppy >device. With respect to newfs, I don't think it's supposed to guess the geometry of the disk; you're supposed to say newfs /dev/fd0a floppy5 (5.25 inch 1.2 in a:) newfs /dev/fd1a floppy3 (3.5 inch 1.44 in b:) >I'm having a hard time believing no one uses floppy drives under >386BSD, but they sure don't work for me. Has anyone had better luck? I use floppies and they work for me within limitations. I can't do 360K or 720K on a 5.25 double density with the current fd driver, and still can't format disks. >Bruce Bauman email: boot@osf.org phone: 617-621-7205 >Open Software Foundation, 11 Cambridge Center, Cambridge, MA, 02142 -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ in real life: david fox email: dfox@quack.kfu.com 5479 Castle Manor Drive, San Jose, CA 95129 "Thanks for letting me change some USA magnetic patterns on your HD" -me 408-253-7992 "You've just won an absolutely FREE trip to the Isles of Langerhans" -me ------------------------------------------------------------------------